If experience is the best teacher, then a handful of Kent State University's student journalists recently got the experience of a lifetime when they traveled to East Palestine, Ohio, to cover a train derailment that is getting attention across the country.  Professor Sue Zake, who serves as the faculty newsroom advisor for the School of Media and Journalism, led some of the students on a class trip the to the derailment scene, about 60 miles east of the Kent Campus so that students could learn what it's like to cover a major news event. The Norfolk Southern train came off the tracks Fe...

EHHS Professor Richard Ferdig, Ph.D., was part of a team of researchers who received the DLC Research Impact Award that was recently announced at closing ceremony of the Digital Learning Collaborative's annual conference in Austin. Practitioners have known that among the student populations served by online courses are students who are hospitalized or homebound due to accident or illness, but this is not a well-studied population. In partnership with faculty in pediatric medicine from the University of Florida, April Fleetwood, Ph.D., and her colleagues, Erik Black, Ph.D., and Lindsay Thomp...

The "Dear Ukraine" global community poem, an interactive website created by Kent State University’s Wick Poetry Center, has encouraged people of all ages around the world to share their voices, inspired by a model poem written by Ukrainian-American poet Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach.  In a new partnership, the "Dear Ukraine" exhibit was recently installed on the walls of the Center for Prayer and Pilgrimage at the Washington National Cathedral in recognition of the one-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.  This partnership with the Washington Nationa...

For Kent State digital media production majors like Cyrus Adkins, ’23, senior year is marked by the opportunity to create a television or digital film project from start to finish. This is part of the capstone course, Production II, and from it, comes student-produced short films, documentaries, music videos and podcasts that outside organizations and film festivals — regional and national — often recognize as outstanding. Adkins, who completed his capstone in Fall 2022, directed and produced “The Beauty of Violence,” which combines elements of ballet and punk music — a creative vi...

Walking down the streets of Manhattan, surrounded by 49 college students of diverse backgrounds, Kent State student Rafael Guedes Bonacin felt at home, even though he was far from it. ...

Fashion Industry Studies graduate student, Camila Cordeiro Valle, offers a glimpse into the future of fashion with her current exhibit in the Design Innovation Hub’s MuseLab.  Valle’s “Exploring 3D Print Waste in Fashion” is a graduate student thesis that seeks to challenge industry standards. Elegant garments dot the room as part of a timeline that takes the viewer on a journey of initial curiosity to full-scale application of 3D print waste in textile design and co-creation. “I went to the DI Hub and was like, ‘Hey, what do you have that’s trash?’” Valle said. “I started colle...